Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit’s been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you’ll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
That was twelve years ago, and “please don’t use our music for torture” is the bare minimum for people who want plausible deniability without actually doing anything about the fact that people are being tortured.
I’m not sure what you expect from them. It should be enough that they don’t want to be a part of the machine and have spoken out against being a part of that, but you want more. Perfection is the enemy of good.
They are celebrities, not political candidates. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is disingenuous when the DNC weilds it, and not even remotely applicable to rich-ass celebrities whose entire political stance is to try to be “apolitical”.
Don’t confuse the awesome free service that once was with the paid brand that’s still around. Still funny all the effort and good-will Metallica wasted to go after one site when plenty of alternatives existed.
No, but when it came time for them to stand up for their rights, they were total dicks about it. There was a right way to handle the situation, but they chose the wrong way.
Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.
Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.
People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.
Owning the rights to copy and distribute your own creative works = imperialism
Lemmy is the Napster demographic
Napster programmers demographic, it seems at times! Lol
That, and the “banned from Reddit” demographic. Two major demographics.
Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit’s been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you’ll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
Wenn all know that it was the Hoff who brought that wall down!
Exactly.
And they have expressed their concerns with the military using their music in a terroristic way. - Source
That was twelve years ago, and “please don’t use our music for torture” is the bare minimum for people who want plausible deniability without actually doing anything about the fact that people are being tortured.
I’m not sure what you expect from them. It should be enough that they don’t want to be a part of the machine and have spoken out against being a part of that, but you want more. Perfection is the enemy of good.
They are celebrities, not political candidates. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is disingenuous when the DNC weilds it, and not even remotely applicable to rich-ass celebrities whose entire political stance is to try to be “apolitical”.
NapsterTM is alive and well
Don’t confuse the awesome free service that once was with the paid brand that’s still around. Still funny all the effort and good-will Metallica wasted to go after one site when plenty of alternatives existed.
No, but when it came time for them to stand up for their rights, they were total dicks about it. There was a right way to handle the situation, but they chose the wrong way.
Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.
Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.
People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.